| Title | Correct lang and xml:lang attributes and text direction for content in Arabic |
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| Description | A page with an excerpt from an Arabic translation of the GNU Free Documentation License ((http://www.isocsyria.org/gfdl.html).
The html element has lang and xml:lang attributes with the value "ar", the language code for Arabic, and the body element has a dir attribute with the value "rtl" for right-to-left text.
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| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-09-01 |
| Status | accepted QA |
Technologies are markup languages or data formats. If the technology is a markup language, “features” refers to elements and attributes.
XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
Feature: lang
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
Specifying the language of content: the lang attribute
.
Feature: dir
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
Specifying the direction of text and tables: the dir attribute
.
This test case is intended to pass because primary language is correctly identified as Arabic and the text direction as right-to-left.
However, defining right-to-left text direction on the body element instead of the html is not well supported in Internet Explorer 5
(see 'Do not add dir="rtl" to the body tag' ((http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-i18n-html-tech-bidi-20040509/#ri20030728.09161786)
in 'Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization: Handling Bidirectional Text 1.0').
This test case can be evaluated automatically when using a test tool with reliable automatic language recognition for Arabic, support for lang and xml:lang attributes, language tags, the dir attribute and text direction codes.
Automatic evaluation.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case passes (line 11, column 7) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The test case passes (line 3, column 44) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The test case passes (line 3, column 58) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The browser can find the primary language and text direction of the document.
This test case maps to technique H57: Using the lang attribute of the html element (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#H57) and to technique H55: Using the dir attribute of the html element (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#H55).
The test case passes (line 11, column 7) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The test case passes (line 3, column 44) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The test case passes (line 3, column 58) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-doc-lang-id.
The browser can find the primary language and text direction of the document.